MSHING + SPASMOSLOP @ Magnet - 23/07/2016

MAGNET PRESENTS FIRE & SOUND II

MOTTE (CHCH, NZ)
https://mottemotte.bandcamp.com/releases
ARI SHARP 
(medium as message / journey in static)
WORLDS NUMBER ONE SOUNDHEALER ! 
(Gemfukiner & Sebastion Berto)
THE CONVOY
http://theconvoy.bandcamp.com/
MSHING / SPASMOSLOP
http://mshing.bandcamp.com/ / http://letsnoise.blogspot.com/

Saturday 23rd July
6:30PM START
11 Roosevelt St. North Coburg
Entry by Koha ( Donation )

Last weeks' gigs

Forgot to post about these last week... good gigs! Thanks to everyone involved!

Photo by Carey Knight

The final Make It Up Club for 2015 features a motley crew of fourteen fine representatives from the myriad of Melbournian musicians who have bestowed the Club with aleatoric delights this year, congregating from their respective corners of the sonoverse to mutually revel in the splendour of spontaneous collaboration. Drawing on Annalee Koernig’s curatorial tactic for the Stutter Big Band of smashing together disparate improvisers adept at sensitive auditory engagement, participants from the new garde to the OG MIUC posse will utilise string, skin, wind and things to transmute slivers of mangled jazz, exquisite contemporary classical, brutal shitcore, lush drone, delectable noise, ecstatic psychedelia and boyzIImencore into a capriciously complex sonic entity attesting to the rich intricacy of our fertile local sonic terrain. There will be three sets of approximately 20 minutes length and no further imposed parameters, because improvisation and sonic liberation are awesome. 

• MIUC Big Band featuring:

Dave Brown (Strings)
Alex Garsden (Strings)
Lizzy Welsh (Strings)
Sean Baxter (Percussion)
Joe Talia (Percussion)
Maria Moles (Percussion)
Aviva Endean (Reeds)
Lloyd Honeybrook (Reeds)
Lisa MacKinney (Organ)
Carolyn Connors (Voice)
Peter Hyde (Voice)
Llara Goodall (Electronics)
Nik Kennedy (Electronics) 

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SPASMOSLOP in Ballarat video

Thanks heaps to REFUND for filming and uploading this awesome high-quality (watch in HD!) video of my set at RADICAL AUDIO TEMPLE in Ballarat.... I've been working on my solo stuff a lot this year... it's a constant work in progress and I think this video really captures the vibe of what I'm trying to do with SPASMOSLOP these days. Looking forward to recording soon for some new release(s) in 2016!

SPASMOSLOP @ Magnet - 15/08/2015

+++ DRACOPEDE (NSW)
https://soundcloud.com/dracopede

+++ THE CONVOY
http://theconvoy.bandcamp.com/

+++ SPASMOSLOP
http://letsnoise.blogspot.com.au/p/spasmoslop.html

+++ PHANTOM GRAVELLER

+++ FREEZING FOG

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6:00pm
FREE
11 Roosevelt St. North Coburg

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ DISCO HORSE!!!! - 12/04/2015

"DISCOBEANS SUNDAY" finds a new home at Horse Bazaar... DISCO HORSE!!!

Kicking off Sunday 12th April
Doors 6:00pm // First act 7:00pm
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+ CURSE OV DIALECT
Surrealist multicultural hip-hop
https://curseovdialect.bandcamp.com/

+ UMBILICAL TENTACLE
PartyGrindHarshSurfMoshNoisecore you can dance to
http://letsnoise.blogspot.com.au/p/umbilical-tentacle.html

+ cleaninglady
Modular Synthesis, Electroacoustic, Adventures in Sub-Bass
https://soundcloud.com/cleaninglady

+ TACTICAL ATTACK
Hardcore fastpunk
https://tacticalattack.bandcamp.com/

+ LANGLO PANIFLAX
Crispy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xceIKmmeZWg

+Dj Leftist Insurgency vs Mack Daddy Albino Dwarf
Neue Deutsche Welle, New Age, Rock in Opposition. Avant-Prog, Afrorock, Japanese New Wave, etc etc

VISUALS
+Socio Ducati
+Langlo Paniflax
+AI YAMAMOTO
+Trewlea Peters

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Horse Bazaar
379 Little Lonsdale St. Melbourne
http://www.horsebazaar.com.au/
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DISCO HORSE

LIVE NOISE / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE STUFF EVERY MONTH SINCE 2011!

http://letsnoise.blogspot.com.au/p/discobeans-sunday.html

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DISCOBEANS SUNDAY - 01/02/2015

+ THE CONVOY
http://theconvoy.bandcamp.com/

+ NAT GRANT
Electro-acoustic percussion business
http://natgrantmusic.com/

+ TODD ANDERSON-KUNERT
Noises, with noise. Now with added bass
www.toddanderson-kunert.com

+ XENOSINE
http://xenosine.com/

Doors/food from 6PM
First act 7:30ish
$5 entry
539 Plenty Rd. Preston

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First Discobeans gig for the year and we're off to a great start! Should be a ripper.

LOCATION SERVICES @ DISCOBEANS SUNDAY - 10/08/2014

+ BLEACH BOYS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKt1tbzebnM

+ LOCATION SERVICES
Stevie Richards - DIY Modular Synth -//&//- Nik Kennedy - Vocals/Electronics
https://soundcloud.com/supreme-overlord
https://soundcloud.com/cleaninglady
http://letsnoise.blogspot.com.au/p/spasmoslop.html

+ DRACOPEDE (NSW)
https://soundcloud.com/dracopede

+ DOTABATA
http://dotabatadirt.blogspot.com.au/


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539 Plenty Rd. Preston
Doors/Food from 6:00pm
First act 7:30ish
$5 entry

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Looking forward to making some more noisemusics with Stevie! Previously just called cleaninglady/Spasmoslop, now called LOCATION SERVICES. What does the name mean? Dunno man... up to you!

Collab with Vijay Thillaimuthu @ MIUC - 25/02/2014

This installment of Make It Up Club is a selection of brutalissimo sound purveyors lurking across thresholds of various soundworlds in the electronic crud-smeared underbelly of Melbourne's DIY noise arena. With a unifying love of suffocating densities and sublime reverberant immersion, Vijay Thillaimuthu's high-ish electrowizardry aesthetic and Nik Kennedy's low-ish scumcore sonic strategy render such descriptive dichotomies utterly irrelevant. Wikipedia defines Nathan Gray as an artistic standard that describes a protocol, digital interface and connectors capable of manipulating a variety of electronic musical instruments, computers and other aleatoric sources into connecting and communicating with one another. And the post-grim powered electronics of Ciarán Geoghegan will be wilfully smashed into the robust industrial-strength ambience borne of Todd Anderson-Kunert's electric assemblage, in a supercollision of extreme frequencies. 


•Vijay Thillaimuthu (Electronics) & Nik Kennedy (Voice, Clarinet, Electronics)

•Nathan Gray (Case Full of MIDI)

•Ciarán Geoghegan (Electronics) & Todd Anderson-Kunert (Electronics)


The Make It Up Club
http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com/
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10 

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Feeling very lucky and stoked to be playing at MIUC again, this time in collab with Vijay Thillaimuthu doin some modular synth conjurations and whatnot... I've got some cool new tricks, processing voice and clarinet (of doom). Rock n roll...

COLLAB WITH ANTHEA CADDY @ MIUC - 28/01/2014

This Tuesday is your last chance to aleatorically party on down for the Make It Up Club's sweet 16th birthday with our final four groups, representing three continents of sonic vocabulary, further fostering intercultural collaboration via communicatory spontaneous music creation and mutual construction of transcendent textures. Melbournian diasporic cellist Anthea Caddy returns to the MIUC stage on her yearly jaunt home from Berlin to the motherland for a clash of string and vocal resonance with oral force of nature Nik Kennedy to round out a killer month of rarefied cross-cultural collaborations. It has also been two years since American modular maven Ben Vida blasted dense synthetic frequency clusters at the architecture of Bar Open, but in 2014 he's here to celebrate improvisation by affecting and reacting to the patch pin matrix, knob and joystick manipulations of Mathew Watson to co-create some layered electronic ecstasy. We also have a first time Make It Up Clubber in British vocalist Viv Corringham, a notional storyteller of lingual deconstruction and textural liberation, ably welcomed to the environs of Melbournian improv by local legend and ambassador-of-impromptu Dave Brown. And a cavalcade of free jazz firebrands corralled by living luminary Kris Wanders and featuring double bassist Slawek Janicki, saxophonist Brett Evans, drummer Damien Ellis & keyboardist Jude Russel, contextualise that the MIUC would probably be nonexistent were it not for Ornette's actions over 50 years ago.


•Anthea Caddy [MEL/BER] (Cello) & Nik Kennedy (Voice)

•Ben Vida [US] (Modular Synth) & Mat Watson (Synthi AKS)

•Viv Corringham [UK] (Voice) & Dave Brown (Guitar, Objects)

•Kris Wanders (Saxes), Slawek Janicki (Double Bass), Brett Evans (Saxes), Damien Ellis (Drums), Jude Russel (Korg)


The Make It Up Club
http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com/
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10

https://www.facebook.com/events/198809800307572/

LOUNGE PERVERT TRIO @ The Evelyn - 17/01/2014

First official gig for LOUNGE PERVERT TRIO - Dan Tucceri on piano, Brad Smith on drums, me on vocals/noise...

Here's a video from our last gig, playing as "Denial De Monic vs. Holy Boner", thanks to Jules for putting it up!

Denial De Monic vs Holy Boner from Jules Dazzle on Vimeo.

Hopefully we'll play some more gigs in the near future!

WANKOSLOP @ DISCOBEANS SUNDAY - 22/12/2013

+ OCCULT BLOOD

Neanderthunderous noisecore
http://occultblood.bandcamp.com/

+ DR. JAFFLE
Toasty beats produced from Gameboys, a Macintosh Computer from 1993 and Fresh Hi-Fi Beets from an intergalactic future beet farm. Delivered in a paper bag.
https://www.facebook.com/drjaffle/

+ STEVE LAW
Modular synth mastermind
http://www.solitary-sound.com/

+ WANKOSLOP
Bizarro noise performance-art wank with Yuka & Nik

+ AAACCCDDDCCC
Prof. Nason returns for another round of fuck-knows-what


Doors/Food from 6:00pm
First act 7:30ish
$5 entry

IS. NOT. MORE. @ Discobeans - 13/10/2013

+ VENUS FLY TRAP
New shit from Yuka, Hitomi, Stella, Bridget & Dana

+ JORGE RAMIREZ (Mexico)
Fry your brain
https://soundcloud.com/jorge-ramirez/tesela-0-1

+ OCCULT GIBBET
Junk & synth dystopian amalgamation

+ IS. NOT. MORE.
Abstract vocal-driven noise from Bonnie Hart (vocals/electronics) & Nik Kennedy (vocals/electronics)

+ THE CONVOY
Hypnotic guitar mantras
http://theconvoy.bandcamp.com/


Discobeans
539 Plenty Rd. Preston

Doors/food from 6:00pm
$5 entry

DISCOBEANS SUNDAY - 11/08/2013

SUNDAY IS THE NEW MONDAY

+ BLEACH BOYS
Black hol(e)istic incarnations of tape machine witchcraft
http://bleachboys.bandcamp.com/

+ BISON GRASS
Bison Grass is the metaphysical vehicle for local mystic, improviser and astral traveler Aaron Wallace. Amateur harmonic chanting and steel strings nourished by a deep love and respect for Eastern blues hybrids and American minimalist Raga worship.
http://bisongrass.bandcamp.com/

+ KUNIYA HIDEKI
One of a very small collective of artists shaking things up in the bubble era city of Miyazaki, Kuniya Hideki's solo and collaborative work is finally starting to turn heads. Having recently shared the stage with underground folk legend Kan Mikami as well as putting out a bunch of quality self produced releases, it's fair to say this young man from the deep south is on a roll. His current live set involves a series of reinterpreted Japanese folk tunes liberally dosed with reverb and a romanticism for the Nippon that once was. His first international show is one that is not to be missed!
http://kuniyahideki.blogspot.jp/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrwgUWNDr2Q

+ SYMPATHIA
Man vs. Electricity vs. Speakers vs. Microphones vs. Feedback vs. Feedback vs. Feedback vs. Feedback vs. Feedback vs. Feedback vs. Universe
https://soundcloud.com/sympathia

+ GURNER
Emma Albury (Eko Eko Azarak/Yolk Yolk/ex-Leopard Leg), Sharryn Koppens (Dick Threats) and Fjorn Butler (Oranj Punjabi/N3 Warriors) are Gurner. This trio’s dense washes of looping rhythm are assembled from an amalgamation of digital and analogue electronics. A singular language of shared fixations, plundered fragments and individual input emerges during live performances.

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Doors/Food from 6:00PM
$5 Entry

DISCOBEANS
539 Plenty Road. Preston

AS YET UNNAMED GALAXY @ Longplay - 20/07/2013

AYUG = Trio with Tina Douglas and Phillip Holquinn. First gig under our new name. Thanks to Scott/Abre Ojos for organising!
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A night of welcome returns - a welcome to Steve Law being back behind the banks of analogue modular equipment and a welcome return to Longplay on St Georges Road - refurbished, refined, rewired.

De-Light brings together the cream of resident Melbournian ambient experimentalists for a night of audio-visual experiences. 

Steve Law - Steve Law has been producing electronic music in Australia since the early 1980's. During that time he has gained a reputation as one of Australia's foremost electronic artists, creating and performing music in almost every sub-genre that has been spawned over the past couple of decades.
After exploring many areas of electronic experimentation with the groups Guild of Fire, Foil and various solo projects, Steve formed the techno project Zen Paradox in 1992. The debut album "Eternal Brainwave" was immediately signed to Ollie Olsen's new Psy-Harmonics label, and licensed to KK/Nova Zembla in Europe and Restless in the U.S. to critical acclaim, and was a huge success. Steve went on to release further material under the Zen Paradox banner during the nineties, backed up with extensive and successful overseas tours. He was named best live electronic act at the 2000 Australian Live Music Awards.
In the meantime, Steve Law continued to explore other areas of cutting edge music, and was awarded the inaugral ABC classic FM computer music award in 1996 for his electro-acoustic composition "Urbania". He has composed music for film, dance and various multi-media works, and has contributed to the Fringe, Next Wave, Experimenta, Electrofringe, Liquid Architecture, Articulating Space, Make it Up Club and Melbourne International Animation festivals.
Steve has collaborated with many other local and international artists, both live and in the studio, and has continued to release music on various labels around the world. He is an inspired live performer, regularly doing impromptu live improvisations with many of Melbourne's underground musicians. He is also a member of the Melbourne band Black Cab.
http://www.solitary-sound.com/

As Yet Unnamed Galaxy - Blurry traversals thru hyper-subterranea with Tina Douglas (Wiimote/Laptop/Visuals), Phillip Holquinn (Guitar/Synths/Effects) and Nik Kennedy (Vocals/Synths/Effects)
http://letsnoise.blogspot.com/

Sam Filmer (Em Vécue Aquieu, The Sleep Ensemble) is a composer and live performer of ambient and neo classical drone music. With the pursuit to enable a mediative state of mind, aiding the listener in freeing their consciousness from the narrative of day to day society

Abre Ojos - Cyclic, macro, micro - a new year with new sounds http://abreojos.net/

Illuminoscillate - Lysergic ambient soundscapes/field recordings http://illuminoscillate.bandcamp.com/

Saturday 20th July at 8pm.
Entry by donation.
Longplay 318 St Georges Road North Fitzroy

https://www.facebook.com/events/504612326274968/

BLACK MARKET Aug 2011 program

More info on the 17th show which I put together:

+ CANDLESNUFFER - Solo guitar/electronics from one of Australia's most interesting and innovative guitarists, Dave Brown. www.candlesnuffer.org

+ F L A T H E A D - Terry McDermott (software) and Piers Morgan (hardware). Feedback guitar discharges textures ranging from delicate and brittle to cacophonous and dense. These sonic streams are refracted by frozen percussive interjections and granulated using custom-built software, to be projected into the void...

+ SPECTRAL GLOOM - Crawling hypnotic black noise dirge from Harriet Morgan (bass/electronics) and Nik Kennedy (vocals/electronics)

+ BIG BIRD & THE SMELLY DICKS - rowdy hardcore punk from your ol' mate Big Bird and some other smelly blokes.

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 4th July 2011

+ BISCOTTI

Baking wonky beats that will break your knees and groove lines that will simmer until you are boiling. Kooky, colourful cocktail of sounds and dance with recipes from around the world and special home secrets.

+ SPASMOSLOP

Bruce McDarryl: Demented voiceboxisms, blown-out beats, mondo manic static, subsonic gut massages, malfunctioning cyborg errors and fuck knows what else.

+ PORPOISE TORTURE

Dark tape sounds, manipulation and grimisms of the voice from Christopher L.G. Hill (KRYSTOFFKRVSTOFFISTON, MOFFARFARRAH, GUGG, GAUNTLET etc.) No porpoises will be harmed during this performance.

+ ERNIE ALTHOFF

Ernie Althoff has been performing experimental music in Melbourne for 33 years. The fact that some of his audience aren't even that old themselves indicates some kind of perseverance and/or survival skillbase that he sees as a good thing! He may bring some electrically powered music machines, and other assorted bits and pieces with which to do sonic things at table height.

+ ENDLESS BEAUTY

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SPASMOSLOP @ Catfood Press 26/06/11

"It's Muddy Lawrence 3 tape, tape launch!

Line-up:
Muddy Lawrence
Diploid
Spasmoslop
Ross
Culm
Lethe
Manley Pointer

Doors open : 2:30
Cost: $2.50

All ages!"

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 6th June 2011

Another ripsnorter line-up, if I do say so myself. Can't wait to see Discobeans godmother Yuka's new duo collab with Mel Toxic Lipstick, and James Rushford/Jess Pinney/Simon Hanselmann's Tight Passage. "Sludgy Psych Shit" according to James. Bonza.
Couldn't be happier with how this series has been going so far. Thanks heaps to everyone that has played and attended these gigs! Onward!

BLACK MARKET May 2011 program

 

Psychward Cult playing tonight!

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 9th May 2011

This month we're on the SECOND Monday instead of the first... with...

+ DJ ARSECRACK
[Sean Baxter: plunderphonics/turntablism/smooth soul music]

+ RACELESS
[one of the founding member of Curse Ov Dialect will be performing a solo set as
1)a political surreal rapper from planet filfla
2)instrumental master of ancient chants and beats
3)possible special guests]

+ TISSUE THANKYOU
[Bisket Martin doing her one girl show with a hand slapped so nicely in your bottom your ears shall bleed to the soothing sounds of love, mastrabation and salad]

+ BLARGHSTRAD NOISESMITH
[Brad Smith: Stupid facial expressions, bombastic blasting, sweaty man stench, bass induced noisewall erection/deconstruction, horrendous throat torture and good ol' fashion mental instability]

+ THE SHARAWADJI EFFECT
[Dale Chapman & Matt Williams: indian banjo, conch, electronics, space echo, theremin, percussion, voice]